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THE GMB union has called for a just-announced Home Office inquiry into undercover police to cover blacklisting. This came during a protest outside Parkside police...

COLONEL Gadaffi made a six minute statement over Al-Ra’y TV on Thursday. He said: ‘The Libyan soil is yours since the days of your forefathers....

THE cessation of hostilities agreed last week is ‘a glimmer of hope for all Syrians,’ President Bashar al-Assad has said. n an interview with ARD...

LEADERS of France’s main trade union federations have refused to talk to the government until it withdraws the CPE (first job contract) that removes...

TWO major health unions have reacted cooly to the Labour government’s new NHS Constitution, launched last Wednesday, which contains ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ for both...

‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...

TENS of thousands of Amazon workers staged strikes and a walkout on Black Friday last week demanding a pay rise and calling on the...

Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...

LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September...

PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its border with Jordan, a Palestinian...

GARMENT factory workers in Bangladesh who try to start trade unions are being intimidated and threatened with murder to stop their efforts to organise,...

A strike at Legacy hospitals and clinics in the US state of Oregon that began on Tuesday 2nd December goes into its third week...

BY SAWSAN KHALIFE – FIRST PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC INTIFADA THE Israeli government’s announcement last week that it has withdrawn proposed legislation to forcibly displace tens...

UNIVERSITY and college lecturers are taking action in defence of their jobs, pay and pensions. They will be taking part in strike action next Tuesday...

RUSSIAN forces have repelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by Ukraine on the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, destroying several aerial and underwater...

YET when we look around us now, what is there to see but a world where the epoch-making events of just a year ago...

THE Libyan prime minister gave an hour and 55 minute-long news conference relayed by Al-Jamahiriyah TV at 11.35 gmt last Thursday. Al-Mahmudi said...

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) last Saturday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ Israel’s threat to turn the ‘economic siege’ it is imposing on the Gaza Strip...

YEMEN’S 20-month war has killed over 7,000 people and wounded nearly 37,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says, and a UN envoy has voiced...

A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...

EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has exposed how the union was infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). The revelation creates fresh questions about the...

ON average 1,000 refugees are now arriving on the Greek islands every day creating an unprecedented emergency for Greece and other countries, the UN...

TOMORROW, June 16th, everyone is being mobilised (striking) for health, the CGT French union federation has declared. Health, medico-social, social, nursing homes and national education...

HEAVY battles between M23 fighters and Congolese government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma have left many...

Khadija Saye 1992-2017 236 Westbourne Grove W11 2RH Until August 7th BY LUCY LAVER WITH THE reconvening of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Monday and the...

HALF a million Greek workers, students and youth marched through Athens on Wednesday. This was as part of a two-day general strike against a government...

THE NHS in Scotland is ‘on the brink’ as A&E hospital waiting times are the worst since records of them began, the Royal College...

THE unholy alliance between Prime Minister Theresa May and the King of Bahrain was cemented last Wednesday when she met King Hamad bin...

IN RESPONSE to the sentencing of Israeli border policeman Ben Deri who murdered unarmed Palestinian teenager Nadeem Nuwara in cold blood on May 15th,...

FATMA RAMADAN member of the Executive Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, issued the following statement last Friday on the eve...

The Egyptian People’s Assembly Arab Affairs Committee has denounced the US Congress resolution to divide Iraq into three states on religious and ethnic bases. The...

BRITISH Airways workers are faced with taking strike action to defeat the management onslaught on their jobs, terms and conditions. BA boss Walsh has issued...

EGYPT strongly condemned on Tuesday attacks on African farm workers in southern Italy and voiced concerns about the Muslim minority there, just days before...

AT LEAST 13 Palestinians were shot and injured – at least one seriously – during clashes with Israeli forces in Ramallah in the occupied...

Last weekend saw united action by German and British Gate Gourmet workers against the company’s savage attacks on their jobs, wages and conditions. The weekend...

ECUADORIAN President Lenin Moreno abandoned the capital, Quito, on Monday and fled to the coast ahead of mass demonstrations which were held yesterday. A mass...

ARGENTINIAN universities began a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The National Interuniversity Council (CIN), professors’ and workers’ unions, and student organisations held the 24-hour strike in...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given a comprehensive interview to Phoenix Television in which he stressed that America is stealing Syria’s oil and selling...

THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...

140,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) members are on the verge of a national strike, which will bring the engineering sector...

Imprisoned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has vowed in a letter to sacrifice himself for the cause of Palestine and Iraq. He urged Arabs to...

IN a challenge to Israeli impunity, Norway has recently emerged as one of the first Western states to implement a cohesive and escalating campaign...

AS Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prepare to vote in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections on May 22,...

THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...